VIDEO: Giant Fireball Meteor Explodes Above Missouri

If you happened to have been up during the early morning hours of Wednesday and were looking at just the right area of the sky, you were treated to a brilliant sky moment. If not, no worries. Thanks to a backyard camera, you can see the giant fireball that was captured on video as it exploded over Missouri.

According to the American Meteor Society site, a huge meteor was witnessed by nearly a dozen people including many in Missouri as it blazed across the sky around 1:34 am Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Dan Bush of the Missouri Skies YouTube channel captured the moment on his backyard video camera.

Was this meteor over Missouri early Wednesday morning a part of a meteor shower?

That's likely the case as the Lyrids meteor shower was predicted to peak between April 14 and April 30, 2026 and we're obviously near the end of that calendar window now. The early morning hours are the ideal time to see these space rocks as they burn up in our atmosphere.

But wait, there's more

Next week another meteor shower is expected to begin as the Aquariids could produce up to 10 meteors per hour with ideal viewing said to be May 5-6, 2026 according to the Earth/Sky website.